there but for the grace of god…
I’m so glad I’m not an Apple Release Engineer today. Four major releases today. iPhone 3G, iPhone Firmware 2.0, MobileMe, and iTunes 7.7. It’s a huge task to synchronize all those releases and it eats...
View ArticleWhat the hell, autoconf?
There’s a new autoconf out, autoconf-2.63. It continues autoconf’s fine tradition of having the suckiest release schedule and quality of the GNU toolkit. You would think that they would increment the...
View ArticleNew books!
I bought a couple books today. I picked up Managing Humans and Real World Haskell. Managing Humans really needed a better editor. Maybe I’m not in the manager mindframe enough to understand it, but it...
View ArticleHow to setup a pretty good dev environment on the mac
(This was a quick write up for a coworker, but others might find it useful) This assumes you have XCode. I mean, really now. First thing to do is install mac homebrew. It’s a package manager of useful...
View ArticleNew GitX fork
It’s good to see that someone has taken up the GitX mantle, since the original hasn’t been updated since September, 2009. There have been a bunch of forks, notably brotherbard‘s fork. But this is the...
View ArticleAMD modules and web developers
Now that require.js has reached 1.0, it’s probably time to start shouting its praises from every rooftop so that javascript library authors include support for it. Require.js is an implementation of...
View ArticleRequire.js and HAML
I’ve been having very good luck with requirehaml. I had been looking around at various templates, but none of them seemed to support compiling before delivery to the client. This script does that and...
View ArticleAgile and Hyperproductivity
I was wondering around my office, which is housed in a co-working location, when I saw on a whiteboard in another company’s office, “Agile: Hyperproductive!” As an engineer type, I had to restrain...
View Articlenamed tasks in leader_cron
I’ve been using erlcron to run scheduled tasks, but since each node in an erlang cluster would have its own copy, it didn’t help with having the tasks run in only one location per-cluster. Then I found...
View ArticleMany to Many joins with Ecto and Elixir
Ecto is an DSL for writing queries and interacting with databases in Elixir. It has a style similar to ActiveRecord, but since there aren’t objects, you can’t really call it an ORM. Like ActiveRecord,...
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